They mostly deployed joint police and military anti-gang squads to patrol the streets.[77] According to FESPAD, a Salvadoran nongovernmental organization, authorities relied on flimsy evidence, including tattoos and overall appearance, for mass arrests of alleged gang members.[78] More than 19,000 people were arrested between July 2003 and August 2004, FESPAD reported in 2005.[79] Around 84 percent of those detained were later acquitted by Salvadoran judges, in most cases, due to lack of evidence.[80] Other studies report similar rates.[81] The efforts failed to protect children and to provide lasting solutions to pervasive gang violence.[82] Studies have found that mass incarceration ends up strengthening criminal organizations by facilitating recruitment from prisons and allowing them to develop systems of criminal control over civilian populations as detainees are released.[83] The administration of President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014), representing the Frente Farabundo Mart para la Liberacin Nacional (FMLN), launched a process of negotiation, in 2012, with gang leaders from the MS-13 and from the two factions of the Eighteenth Street Gang
Lung cancer which is todays the most common cancer responsible for death rates are directly related to smoking
Meanwhile, many education advocates aren't crazy about how the tax money raised by Rallo's proposed amendment would be spent
Contraband tobacco could even be seen as a gateway crime
